07. Difficulties

F L A S H B A C K

"Wish I could, I could've said goodbye

I would've said what I wanted to

Maybe even cried for you

If I knew it would be the last time

I would've broken my heart in two."

Nandini's voice was dripping with longing pleas for love as she sang these lines and completed the song looking down. Her voice was screaming, "Please, Manik, love me once. Please love me, hold me as yours just once. I will be blessed with your single touch, my burning heart will relieve."

But Manik didn't care. He didn't care that someone was singing in his love. Someone whose heart was burning to ashes with all his ignorance.

Manik, he was sitting there at a little distance from Nandini with his laptop on his leg, preparing some important design with the frowns covering his forehead. He acted as if his complete attention was on his work. He couldn't hear, if anyone was singing in fron